Nomad routinely tops many of our accessory buying guides. Its wireless chargers, iPhone cases, and Apple Watch straps are well made and functional with a stylish aesthetic, albeit a little pricey. That’s resolved with the Nomad Black Friday Sale event, which has discounts of up to 30 percent off select products, and up to 80 […]
Boutayna Chokrane is a product writer and reviewer at WIRED. Before joining the Gear team, she was a music editorial fellow at Pitchfork. She also worked as a freelance journalist, covering fashion, art, and culture for Vogue, Rolling Stone, the Cut, and others. She graduated from Northwestern University with a… Read more
Honorable Mentions • Skylight 10-inch Frame for $170: This frame was a previous honorable mention, and it’s still a solid frame. We like other frames better for the price, including the new Skylight Frame 2 (especially with its Snap Frame accessories). • Cozyla frames: We tried a few from this brand. Photo quality was great […]
Back in 2020, the HyperX QuadCast S was the USB microphone every Twitch streamer seemingly had on their streams. Now, the QuadCast 2 S is here to try to one-up its predecessor. And what does it bring to the table? A lot more LEDs, for starters. The original QuadCast only lit up in red, while […]
The Neural DSP Quad Cortex is undeniably one of the finest guitar amp modelers in the world. For a certain kind of gigging musician who wants to minimize bulk and doesn’t require much in the way of effects, it can pretty convincingly re-create any number of amps, and has plenty of options for bread and […]
The last electric mountain bike I tested cost $8,000. That’s a lot of dough, and a lot of working parts to troubleshoot when things go sideways, as they eventually will with any bike. Alternatively, the Clip, which markets itself as the “first plug-and-play bike-upgrade device” starts at $500 and doesn’t even need a companion app. […]
Three years ago, while strolling through an American mall with his wife, Volkan Yilmaz once again found himself mulling a question that had been on his mind for years. They’d just passed a Louis Vuitton store, its signature monogrammed bags visible through the window. “I’d always wondered why these bags cost thousands of dollars, especially […]
The world is full of feel-bad news. Here’s something to feel good about: Automatic emergency braking is one of the great car safety-tech success stories. Auto-braking systems, called AEB for short, use sensors including cameras, radar, and lidar to sense when a crash is about to happen and warn drivers—then automatically apply the brakes if […]
Black Friday, my friends, is coming. Like a looming storm of deals, it can feel stressful waiting for the impending holiday’s arrival to finally get the things you want and need on sale. But, good news: Plenty of sales are starting early, so you can start checking things off your shopping list. Why not check […]
In the swarm of post-election chaos that threatens to upend the goals of countless communities, at least one group is holding steady: the right to repair advocates. With a second Trump presidency ascending in the US, experts have been furrowing their brows about what the incoming administration will mean for the tech industry. But the […]